The July 17 hearing will be the second into the recall by the Senate Commerce subcommittee on consumer protection. Rodney O’Neal, the CEO and president of switch maker Delphi, could be asked about communications that Delphi employees had with the GM engineer responsible for the switch.

Valukas, a former federal prosecutor, led an internal investigation of GM’s handling of the recall. Feinberg recently unveiled a plan for compensating the victims of crashes caused by faulty switches.

The problem is responsible for at least 13 deaths.

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